WELCOME TO #MIGMAT2022

It fills me with pride to say, ‘Welcome Back, Sheffield’ to a 7th year of Migration Matters Festival.

While you’ve been gone, the festival has come under the wing of Sheffield based charity, Arts on the Run who has been supporting refugee and migrant artists since 2009.

It has been a challenging few years for everyone and it feels apt that this year's Refugee Week theme is ‘healing '. The festival will pay homage to the communities who have been most impacted over this period, particularly sanctuary seekers, refugees and survivors of war and the people and places that have supported them.

This year we can dance, laugh, learn, and listen together in another soulful sensation at venues across the city. We are welcoming over 50 events to a packed 9-day programme bringing together artists from Sheffield’s communities with artists from across the globe.

Among the many events to look out for are Howl Yuan’s Diaspora programme featuring a film night with Queer East, an outdoor peformance from Pepa Duarte with show Migran-te, online podcast from Living in Sheffield and Frontier Media. We will be graced by celebrated author, poet, and British icon, Lemn Sissay as he reads from bestselling book ‘My Name is Why’ and answers your questions in an event to remember at The Montgomery Theatre. Son of Afrobeat pioneer, Seun Kuti will join us with the legendary Egypt 80 at The Foundry. Les Amazones D'Afrique, a contemporary world music supergroup, will be joining us for a Monday Leadmill extravaganza.

Finally, I would like to send an enormous thank you to the festival team, our countless volunteers and the incredible trustees both current and former who have worked tirelessly to ensure the festival continues to inspire and bring hope to people.

Thank you for joining us on our 7th year celebration of sanctuary in the Steel. You’re going to love it!

Sam Holland Festival Director

Donate To The Festival

Our festival is funding dependent and the only way we have been able to coordinate 7 straight festivals is through the generosity of our audiences. We work hard throughout the year to make sure that the festival’s legacy is secured. Any donations or money that you can contribute towards events goes a long way to helping us put on future programmes.

The festival will continue to support two chosen charities with the profits of this year's festival and will be announced on our website.

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Refugee Week is the UK's largest festival celebrating the contribution of refugees and promoting understanding of why people seek sanctuary.

http://refugeeweek.org.uk/